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Today we are upgrading our JACURUTU.COM Discussion Forum, after an entire decade using our old software version (phpBB 3.0.0 to 3.0.14). That code served us well for years, but had begun coughing and wheezing in its old age.

Changing is always difficult for everybody, but necessary as a result of software obsolescence, system incompatibilities and changes in how information is provided and communicated by/to forum members.

So, we decided to put the old code out of its/our misery, and install a new Discussion Forum that I'd been working with for some time (phpBB 3.1.10). The look of the new Forum is pretty much the same as the old one, but it's a completely different beast under the surface, and should work much more efficiently for everyone. I think it may be more user friendly.

The new system also requires a little bit of adaptation and learning on everyone’s part. Mobile users now represent over 35% of our viewers, making our changes inevitable. We also have lots of new features that have been previously requested by users.

So, please post your bug, suggestions, comments and preferences. Let us know how you think jacurutu.com could be improved. What new features have you found that make this new forum much more usable/user-friendly? Remember : jacurutu.com is your board, your feedback is important to us! We’re reading every comment.

Over 1k bug fixes, 1.5k improvements & 11k commits!!! The new phpBB version (3.1.0 Ascraeus) features many improvements for users, administrators, and developers alike.

Ascraeus modernizes the software and catches it up in many areas. As a result, the requirements will also become more modern with at least PHP 5.3.3 and newer versions of PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and other DBMS.

Its new responsive theme takes phpBB into the modern mobile world, OAuth logins and Gravatars improve phpBB's integration into the social web, and a new notification system makes it easy to keep apprised of all that's going on.

With phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus' extension system, we can easily customize and extend our forum's functionality without modifying source code. The extension system makes updating phpBB and 3rd party code a breeze.

The forum looks great on a smartphone now and avatar images automatically resize if you have a smaller screen instead of covering the text. Jacurutu and Prosilver style are responsive, so they look good even with low width. They have been completely overhauled to ensure a modern experience on all of your devices.The avatar scales to above the post instead of overflowing the text.

➤ Bc — What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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A site designed with RWD adapts the layout to the viewing environment by using fluid, proportion-based grids,flexible images, and CSS3 media queries,an extension of the @media rule. Responsive web design has become more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of total internet traffic. Therefore, Google announced "Mobilegeddon" in 2015, and started to boost the ratings of sites that are mobile friendly if the search was made from a mobile device.

❶ Extensions :Mods are out, extensions are in. Time consuming and update-breaking modifications are a thing of the past. No more manually editing code ! Major changes to the core code is no longer necessary as extensions are more integrated to the system. Quickly installed in the ACP, extensions are to phpBB 3.1 what MODs were to phpBB 2.0 & 3.0.

❷ Simplified Updating :If you're tired of complicated updating procedures, you'll love phpBB 3.1. Whether it's extensions or phpBB itself, updating is as simple as uploading the new package and clicking a few buttons. You can even check to make sure you're running the latest versions, right in the ACP.

❸ Soft Delete :Posts and topics can now be removed from public view without being permanently deleted. You can determine this behaviour per user or group.

❹ Contact Page :Visitors, including guests, can now get in touch with the board administrator by using the built-in contact page.

❺ Notification System :Easily configure how you prefer to be notified about various events, such as when you are quoted in a post. The new extensible notifications feature lives in the header of every page and provides a centralized place to receive alerts and other information.

❼ Gravatar Support :Avatars may now be fetched from the Gravatar service, in addition to the previously available options.

❽ AJAX, HTML5 & CSS3 Enhancements :Traditionally with phpBB, even simple operations like deleting a post or reordering forums have involved multiple requests and full page loads, which was slow and heavy on bandwidth. We've added AJAX functionality to a lot of these simple operations, making them faster and easier to do. We're now using the HTML5 doctype and CSS3 to modernize the codebase, reduce the number of requests made to the server, and speed up page load times.

The board index pretty similar to version 3.0.14 but you will certainly notice some changes such as the Quick links and the Notifications, which will give you pop-ups to unread messages to subscribed or bookmarked threads.

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